Erectile Dysfunction: Prevent; don’t just cure

Clearing the basics:

There’s no need to cure erectile dysfunction if you can prevent its occurrence. Often it is distress and anxiety that eat into the cravings for sex and conditions like erectile dysfunction become imminent. However, there are ways to prevent the causal factors and lifestyle alterations – in this regard – are paramount. It is because erectile dysfunction is primarily psychological by nature (unless caused by any physical accident resulting in physical trauma and deformation); it is the psychological problems that lead to an imbalance of various factors that control our libido. Positive habits mend the mind and restore the proper functioning of the physical factors, so off with anxiety, stress and depression to maintain the high.

Explaining things further

All right, now we know that stress, anxiety and depression are responsible for ED but how could thoughts influence the muscles? The different organs (and the systems they make up, collectively) act as the bridges here; psychological problems, being imbalances in the neurotransmitters and neurohormones, influence primarily the rest of the endocrine system, which, in turn, affect the functioning of other systems. This is when we start getting the symptoms, often misinterpreted as diseases.

Correctional measures

So it makes sense nipping the psychological causes in the bud and preventing erectile dysfunction from being triggered; for that, you must stop carrying your work into the bedroom or turning your office to one. This will restore back the communication you are missing and will drive away the monotony in sex. Monotonous sex is one of the biggest factors behind erectile dysfunction, so this is also the first therapy for them who are already suffering. It will help in dealing with stress too.

Often, it is a fear of premature ejaculation that gives rise to ED; what people fail to understand is one or two instances of PE is a natural phenomenon. It is not always possible to score six-sigma in sex every time, so the fear of losing must not let you lose the battle itself.

An erection achieved watching porn or during masturbation but not during sex indicates an ED to be psychological and because of a hormonal imbalance or problem with vasodilatation. However, push-ups and squats before sex takes care of all the three factors; that way, you increase the level of free testosterone in the blood, enhance circulation and their combined effect is euphoric. These effects can be boosted if a person curbs on his nicotine and alcohol intake; the body has to spend more calories in warding off the effects of both and leave the tanks empty. Saving this energy is boosting your sexual prowess; besides, smoking causes vasoconstriction and doesn’t allow the blood vessels in the corpus cavernosum or the erectile tissue to expand and accommodate more blood, thus preventing an erection.

Vasoconstriction, however, is not caused by smoking alone; low-density lipoprotein or the bad cholesterol also stays a factor, which hardens the blood vessels and make them lose their elasticity. So, in plain words: “Watch your weight” if you want to keep safe from erectile dysfunction and a lot other disorders that worsen it. Diabetes is just one.